Ahhh, the marketer’s blog. You have to have one, although one could make the excuse that microblogging takes its place. Still, in dig. media, we’re grappling with some fairly large and complicated ideas. 140 characters makes you pithy but doesn’t get to the heart of these matters.

I have NO excuse for neglecting the blog save for the fact that I’m working. A lot. On some really interesting branding projects. As soon as my practice settles into something approaching a well-oiled machine (ok, as soon as it becomes organized chaos and not just pure chaos), the blog will be back, because we are in a very weird place these days, especially in digital music and movies.

My Napster colleague (our VP, Product Development) Don Dodge has become a startup guru, running the Microsoft Startup Zone and conducting some of the most clear-eyed assessments of newcos I’ve seen, and doing some very cool angel investing (Zink is one). I had a blast last September at Techcrunch 50 sitting with Don in the “blogger zone”. Here’s Don’s take on the newcos at DEMO this year:

http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2009/03/best-of-demo-09.html